Fighters, Dogs and Abuse – This Week In Sad Combat Sports News

I’ve said it before, but professional fighters are, generally speaking, not nice individuals. There might be some decent folk here and there, but more often than not, the people that have made the decision to get punched in the brain as a career path aren’t the best dudes.

Case in point, former potential UFC featherweight title challenger Josh Grispi was arrested two times over four days for spousal abuse. In addition to using his own body to harm his wife, Grispi also trained his pitbull to hurt her. According to the report:

Harvey said the victim was mauled by her husband’s dog, which had been trained to attack her. She was treated at a hospital for a concussion, a broken wrist and dog bites to her leg.

“UR (expletive) dead and if u even try n bring my kids into it the worse it will b for u and if u try and make a seen (sic) I’ll choke u unconscious and smash ur throat and if u get worse n run around after I’m goin to let Buddy have at u and I’ll walk out of the room.

Now, I realize that what he did can’t be fixed by watching him get beat up in the cage, but it can be kind of therapeutic. So here’s Grispi getting TKO’d via body shot by George Roop.

And here’s Rani Yahya choking out Grispi in 2012. Sadly, Grispi never did end up fighting Jose Aldo, otherwise there would be a video of Jose kicking Josh’s terrible head off his sh*tty shoulders.

Sadly, speaking of kicks, and also dogs, the Muay Thai kickboxer formerly known as Buakaw Por. Pramuk, now Buakaw Banchamek, was filmed abusing a small puppy. Buakaw uses the dog’s own paw to strike it in the face several times, all while the dog is yelping in obvious pain as Buakaw laughs. The video was originally on Instagram, was then uploaded to YouTube, but has since been removed. It wasn’t graphic, but it certainly wasn’t innocuous

Again, to help us all feel a little better, here’s Yoshihiro Sato knocking out Buakaw back in 2008 (This is the only fight I could find where Buakaw got KO’d). What Buakaw did isn’t as monstrous as Grispi’s actions, but it’s still pretty foul.

I have a proposition to any fighters that are suffering from some public image woes: Go to Massachusetts or Thailand and film yourself socking either of these dudes REALLY F*CKING HARD in the face. Jon Jones, I think you are an insincere dingus, but if you elbow Grispi’s face in half, I’ll let everything other than your homophobia issues slide. Please, someone be the Keith Hackney to these assh*les Joe Son.

“I’ve said it before, but professional fighters are, generally speaking, not nice individuals. There might be some decent folk here and there, but more often than not, the people that have made the decision to get punched in the brain as a career path aren’t the best dudes”

This is an idiotic and uninformed statement.

You might as well say, generally speaking, Police Officers are not nice individuals because they chose a career path where they get shot at and then shoot at other people. Or maybe bartenders are all bad people because they’ve chosen to get people drunk as a living.

Obviously neither of those are true either and are just as ignorant as the statement you opened this article with. There are bad people in every profession and both of these guys are obviously pieces of crap. But there are cops, bartenders, attorneys, doctors and every other professional who are also horrible. It doesn’t have anything to do with the profession.

I work with martial artists, including many, many fighters, every day. I would legitimately say 80% are good, normal guys. 10% are amazing individuals who go above and beyond at home, at the gym and in their communities. And 10% are total dicks. Again, just like any career.

I’m not arguing the fact that what these guys did was horrible and that all of the guys you listed are also horrible human beings. There are quite a few pricks in MMA and I can only give anecdotal evidence against your point of “the people that have made the decision to get punched in the brain as a career path aren’t the best dudes.”

And I am all in favor of adding lightheartedness into stories like these (I really do think adding in the videos of them getting there butts kicked was a nice touch). But what you wrote at the beginning was not done in a jokey manner. There was no punchline or sarcasm. It may have sounded like a joke in your head but when someone else reads it, it sounds like you are generalizing the vast majority of a group of people as being inherently bad.